One Buddhist explanation saw the kami as supernatural beings still caught in the cycle of birth and rebirth ( reincarnation ).

: One of the reasons why the Wheel of Life was painted outside the monasteries and on the walls ( and was really encouraged even by the Buddha himself ) is to teach this very profound Buddhist philosophy of life and perception to more simple-minded farmers or cowherds.

One of Tang's most distinguished advisors was a Buddhist spiritual teacher, who Tang had used to indoctrinate his troops in the ways of loyalty, and to whom he had deferred for various career decisions.

One of the most famous Buddhist Chinese pagodas is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in 652 AD.

One of 3 characteristics of the first level of Buddhist sainthood called sotapanna, is the elimination of the clinging on to Rites and Rituals.

:* The Theravada Buddhist place of worship Wat Dhammapateep ( Temple of the Flame of Truth or Reality as taught by the Enlightened One ) has since 2005 on its grounds an in China beautifully sculptured Buddha seated on a soccle, both in dark green granite – the tallest stone Buddha statue in Europe.

One notable exception to this is found in the Ōbaku Zen school, which was founded in Japan during the 17th century by the Chinese Buddhist monk Yinyuan Longqi ( J. Ingen Ryuki ).

One way that he honed his mastery of astronomy, aside from the accurate prediction of the Wakor solar eclipse, was changing the official Buddhist calendar, “ which was seriously miscalculated and the times for auspicious moments were incorrect .”

One of the earliest Buddhist apologetic texts is The Questions of King Milinda, which deals with ethical and intellectual problems.

* Many Bodies, One Mind: Movements in British Buddhism by Ken Jones in Buddhist Peace Fellowship

One feature that Shingon shares in common with Tendai, the only other school with esoteric teachings in Japan is the use of Siddham Sanskrit Seed-syllables or Bija along with anthropomorphic and symbolic representations, to express Buddhist deities in their Mandalas.

One way to describe the Buddhist eightfold path is a turning towards the reality of things as they are right now and understanding reality directly, although it is debated the degree to which these investigations are metaphysical or epistemological.

One of the most important reasons for the restoration of Buddhism to a position of minimal acceptance was the role of Buddhist monks in repelling the Japanese invasions of Korea, which occurred between 1592 and 1598.

One represents the phenomenal world ( or in Buddhist terms Samsara ), the other represents the noumenal world ( or Nirvana ).

One says that a Buddhist went to India to acquire sutras.

One Buddhist scholar writes of it as: ' the body of reality itself, without specific, delimited form, wherein the Buddha is identified with the spiritually charged nature of everything that is.

One of Han Yu's most famous essays decries the worship of Buddhist relics.

One day, when Jinjue was still a student at Jiao-Shan Buddhist College, he happened to stumble onto the word " Nebula " in the dictionary, read as Xīngyún in Chinese.

Unlike most prominent Buddhist leaders in Taiwan who have withdrawn from making political statements or have kept them private, Hsing Yun is notable in openly involving himself with Taiwanese and Chinese politics, and is a prominent supporter of the One China policy.

One possible reason for the decline was the labor drain imposed by the Siamese conquerors as they marched thousands of Khmer peasants, skilled artisans, scholars, and members of the Buddhist clergy back to their capital of Ayutthaya.

One of the elders becomes senile and starts a Buddhist dancing cult among the tanuki who are unable to transform, eventually sailing away with them in a ship that takes them to their deaths, while the other elder investigates joining the human world as the last of the transforming kitsune ( foxes ) have already done.

One of the recurring elements in Indian art, often found at gates of Buddhist and Hindu temples, is the sculpture of a Yakshi with her foot on the trunk and her hands holding the branch of a flowering ashoka tree.

One of the central texts of the Pāli Canon in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Digha Nikaya, describes the appearance of the historical Buddha with a list of 32 physical characteristics.

This latter claim has however been a source of much controversy ( see Bodhidharma, the martial arts, and the disputed India connection ) One more feature about the Chinese Buddhist monks is that they practice the burning marks on their scalp, finger or part of the skin on their anterior side of the forearm with incense as a sign of ordination.

One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

One legend related of Sargon in Assyrian times says that

One legend has said that during the conflict, El Cid killed an Aragonese knight in single combat, thereby receiving the honorific title Campeador.

One well-known legend about El Cid describes how he acquired the stallion.

One is the legend of Bodhidharma, the Indian master who brought the Ekayana school of India to China that subsequently became Chan Buddhism.

One legend concerning Asmodeus goes on to state that Solomon one day asked Asmodeus what could make demons powerful over man, and Asmodeus asked to be freed and given the ring so that he could demonstrate ; Solomon agreed but Asmodeus threw the ring into the sea and it was swallowed by a fish.

One Muslim legend narrates that Shem was one of the people that God made Jesus resurrect as a sign to the Children of Israel.

One possibly true urban legend is that Dillinger robbed 1, 000 coin bags of Peace Dollars in December 1933.

One legend tells that, prior to the arrival of Henry's commissioners, the monks covertly removed Cuthbert's body from the cathedral, reburying it in a secret location within the grounds of Crayke Abbey.

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

One legend has it that in the Heroic Age before the Trojan War, Theseus abandoned the princess Ariadne of Crete on this island after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth.

The Jedi Master comes to believe that the boy, who is exceptionally strong in the Force, may be the " Chosen One " of Jedi legend destined to bring balance to the Force.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

One legend states that the town derives its name from Luba, a young man credited with slaying a giant bear that had been terrifying the inhabitants.

One legend, as further elaborated through the Middle Ages, established Astyanax, renamed " Francus ", as the founder of Merovingian dynasty and forefather of Charlemagne.

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

One legend tells that, when Balor was slain by Lugh, Balor's eye was still open when he fell face first into the ground.

Older books about Alfred the Great include the legend, for example: Jacob Abbott's 1849 Alfred the Great says that " One of the greatest and most important of the measures which Alfred adopted for the intellectual improvement of his people was the founding of the great University of Oxford.

One legend holds that the place was originally named " Shore's Ditch ", after Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV, who is supposed to have died or been buried in a ditch in the area.

One example is the legend Sina and the Eel which is associated with the Mata o le Alelo pool on the island of Savai ' i.

* One legend tells that Tagaloa had two children, a son Moa and a daughter Lu.

One well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a stone bulldog that allegedly at one time guarded the mausoleum of florist John G. Heinl, the brother-in-law of Eugene V. Debs and the father of esteemed journalist Robert Debs Heinl, which is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

One of these, boxing legend Jack Dempsey, made continual use of these facilities until Mack's death in the mid-1930s.

One legend has it that Lake Magdalene was named after Mary Magdalene, friend and follower of Jesus, who once appeared to a settler family along the waters of the lake.